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113 Notes Preface 1. R. Daly, “End Ban on Condolences After Soldier Dies by Suicide, APA Says,” Psychiatric News 45 (Nov. 19, 2010): 2, http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/ content/45/22/2.4.full. 2. http://www.historyofpia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12515&start =0. 3. J. W. von Goethe, The Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life, in The Complete Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, trans. J. Oxenford, 10 vols. (New York: P. F. Collier and Son, n.d.), 2:163. 4. D. Hume, “On Suicide” (1777), in Essays: Moral, Political, and Literary, D. Hume, ed. Eugene F. Miller, rev. ed. (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1985), 577–89. See also the appendix. 5. B. Rush, “The Founders’ Constitution,” vol. 5, amendment 8, doc. 16, in The Selected Writings of Benjamin Rush, ed. D. D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/ amendVIIIs16.html; Lectures on the Medical Jurisprudence of the Mind (1810), in The Autobiography of Benjamin Rush: His “Travels Through Life” Together with His “Commonplace Book for 1789–1812,” ed. G. W. Corner (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1948), 350; Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind (1812) (New York: Hafner Press, 1962), 273–74. 6. “What Is It Like to Be Committed to the Psychiatric Ward of a Hospital?” (2001), http://www.antipsychiatry.org/e-mail.htm. 7. In this book I use many common terms—such as mental illness, psychiatric treatment, suicide prevention, and others—with the understanding that I do not share their conventional meanings or connotations. 8. My opposition to medical coercions is limited to adults. Children are not legally qualified to consent to receive, or reject, medical services. 114 • Notes to Pages 1–13 Introduction 1. T. Szasz, Fatal Freedom: The Ethics and Politics of Suicide, esp. 129–31. The term death control now appears on some Web sites: for example, J. R. Mooneyham, “The Second Coming: What Will Happen to the World Once a Practical Death Control Pill Becomes Widely Available?” (2000), http://www.jrmooneyham.com/2com.html. 2. Quoted in H. Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, 64. 3. T. Szasz, Pharmacracy: Medicine and Politics in America. 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate. 5. “Federal Commitment to Suicide Prevention: A Call to Collaboration,” http://www.sprc.org/library/collabcall.pdf (emphasis added). 6. Ibid. (emphasis added). 7. Ibid. (emphasis added). 8. G. Wilkinson, “Can Suicide Be Prevented?” British Medical Journal 309 (Oct. 1994): 860–62. 9. T. Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy: Mental Healing as Religion, Rhetoric, and Repression, esp. 67–81. 10. Szasz, Fatal Freedom. 11. “Ideation,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation. 12. Szasz, Pharmacracy. 13. W. F. Bynum and M. Neve, “Hamlet on the Couch,” in The Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry, vol. 1, People and Ideas, ed. W. F. Bynum, R. Porter, and M. Shepherd, 295. 14. Szasz, Fatal Freedom, chap. 3. 15. J. S. Mill, On Liberty (1859) (Chicago: Regnery, 1955), 14. 16. See T. Szasz, Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry, Cruel Compassion : The Psychiatric Control of Society’s Unwanted, Liberation by Oppression: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Psychiatry, and Psychiatry: The Science of Lies. 17. See T. Szasz, “The Case Against Suicide Prevention,” American Psychologist 41 (July 1986): 806–12; “Noncoercive Psychiatry: An Oxymoron,” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 31 (Spring 1991): 117–25; and Fatal Freedom. 1. Suicide Prohibition 1. Department of Health and Human Services, CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), “Youth Suicide.” http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/suicide/ youthsuicide.htm; A. Camus, “The Myth of Sisyphus,” 3. [54.198.37.250] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 23:18 GMT) Notes to Pages 14–24 • 115 2. M. McDonald and T. R. Murphy, Sleepless Souls: Suicide in Early Modern England. See also Szasz, Fatal Freedom. 3. The psychiatric detention of Alice Battenberg (Mountbatten)—the mother of Philip Mountbatten, husband of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain—is a dramatic example. H. Vickers, Alice: Princess Andrew of Greece. 4. W. H. Auden, “In Memoriam of Sigmund Freud” (1940), http://www .poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15543. 5. S. K. Schwartz, “Is It Ever OK to Lie to Patients?” Physicians Practice 20 (Nov. 2010): 43–45, http:/ /www.physicianspractice.com/difficult-patients/content/ article/1462168/1700578. 6. Szasz, Psychiatry: The Science of Lies. 7. M. Goin, “The ‘Suicide-Prevention Contract’: A Dangerous Myth,” Psychiatric News 38 (July 18, 2003): 3, 27, http...